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How to balance a conflict between animal people when one of them has the advantage of flight?
You can't fly in any but the lightest armour
Birds must be very light to endure staying airborne for very long, and though the largest birds of prey can lift animals as large as goats, it's only for ...
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How to balance a conflict between animal people when one of them has the advantage of flight?
Set the battles in a location where flight is difficult, for example underneath a thick jungle canopy or in rocky valley with strong winds. Have a naturally chaotic magic field in the region that ...
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How to balance a conflict between animal people when one of them has the advantage of flight?
Beefcake Wizards
Other answers point out the Avians cannot stand and fight a shield wall because they are too flimsy. Even staying in the air they cannot use powerful bows because they are too weak. ...
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How to balance a conflict between animal people when one of them has the advantage of flight?
Both sides indulge in attacks on food and water supplies.
Perhaps these are new spells, hence the lack of agreement against them.
Perhaps their subtle differences allow them to be indignant at the ...
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How to balance a conflict between animal people when one of them has the advantage of flight?
Lions jump high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FN1GX46oc0
This looks like a tiger to me. It is definitely a big cat and it is really jumping. I figure the back legs are 5 feet off the ground and ...
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How to balance a conflict between animal people when one of them has the advantage of flight?
Assumption both groups are omnivores. Thus are in competition for food thus leading to prior wars/violence that caused the avians to be pushed into the mountains where they have a strong military ...
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How much food surplus would medieval peasants have?
By default, not that much
The economy of most medieval states was Malthusian, or close to; that is, if there was any extended period of excess food, population growth accelerated until there was no ...
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Litmus test for discerning worthy counterparty of medieval trade
Textiles, Flanders
In medieval times, there existed trade over the Silk route. It involved silk, pottery, spices.. Now suppose people from the East would want to get a stronghold in trade. They could ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
You are in luck! We have an example and a counter example in history.
North Africa, Asia
North Africa hosted a European style societies and is a mostly physically separate continent from Europe. Asia ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
The question as asked is vague, and may want to be narrowed down, but here is my understanding of the question, and my best swing at answering; you appear to be asking 'What conditions would lead a ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
Q: "I was wondering how could they be medieval style like the mainland, and if it is even possible at all."
No, because you would need too recent common roots
.. and recent common roots ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
Depends on how you define "like" ...
Speaking the same language, having exactly the same kind of technology, without knowing each other? Not really.
But consider how little China and Europe ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
Common evolution
China and Europe are two medieval setups in two distinct continental areas, separated by kilometers. Both discovered the same things nearly at the same time.
Their political and ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
Rediscovered.
https://www.deviantart.com/lpsdc/art/The-Lost-City-868020985
Millenia before the events of your story, there was an Atlantis-like ancient empire whose domain spanned the continents. ...
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
The Kingdom of Prester John:
Thule, lost Norse colonies, etc. The Histories and mythologies of Europe are filled with references to supposed kingdoms across the sea, or just out of reach, or just over ...
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How to hide rifle during medieval town entrance inspection?
Misdirection
Have someone hire an idiot to take some staves into town. Each staff should be enchanted to cast spells like Explosive Fireball, Ice Beam, Raise Dead etc. They should also be clearly ...
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How to hide rifle during medieval town entrance inspection?
Deception
Simply put, have a fake Precision Rifle, that’s in plain sight, and have a real time-accurate rifle in a smuggling/hidden compartment. People are notoriously single minded, so if the guard ...
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Medieval visual torture method
I suppose the obvious answer is to blind them, but that seems a bit permanent for the intention of the Five Pains as I am reading it. Maybe instead of something painful to look at, you could just do ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
"Your words shall be written in the purest blue with ink made from crushed lapis lazuli, written on pages from trees which outlasted many generations. All you have written as such shall be your ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The Baron knew the deal was too good to be true. Immortality for the price of a dairy? But his goals require risk, and so a risk he took. Then when the Baron was in danger, Stan provided a second deal ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The diary is a loophole
I like the answer by Cadence, but I think the diary can serve an additional purpose. Think about it... Can you maintain a diary for eternity ? Are you sure you won't miss a ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
It is much simpler.
The diary is a gimmick, but it is also important. The important things in it are that (1) Baron is asked to use specific ingredients for ink, and (2) is asked to include at least ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The Baron is Stan's telegraph
Do anything very many times and you'll eventually do it unconsciously. A pedestrian example: the first time you washed the dishes, you had to pay attention to each dish --...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
Long term investment
There is a scene in Good Omens where Crowley, a demon who is always up to date with whatever is trending, meets two of his colleagues who spend most of their time in hell. They ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
He's got the barony exactly the way he wants it, and he wants to keep it that way.
He foresees that inheritance would muck it up -- anything from an observation that heirs often differ, to a vision ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
New Layer Of Hell.
In typical D&D fashion, all the fiends are constantly feuding with each other for power and influence.
Stan is a medium rank devil. From a mortal's point of view, he is godlike. ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The Baron's immediate goals arise from his need to maintain this book. He is constantly desiring raw materials that he can use to manufacture new pages and other book binding resources.
This would ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
Psychometry, The Horcrux, and The Portal:
Stan is in a bit of a bind. He's in exile, and his ability to do things outside the underworld is now really limited. He is, however, a really clever guy, and ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
1. The diary itself is designed to corrupt
Each page of the diary must be made of parchment made from an intelligent creature, and inked in blood of the same. The baron must choose to kill and defile ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The baron rules a breadbasket
Many major empires have a bread basket. The Greek empires had Crimea, in the Ukraine. The Chinese had Sichuan. The Roman Empire had Egypt. Their vast harvests fed by the ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The archetypical way gods work in stories is Gods create sentients, sentients create faith, faith powers the Gods♤.
The Baron's diary will be scrutinized by Stan and his followers, and from it ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The diary is a ruse; the devil's goal is merely to corrupt the baron.
He has no specific repayment in mind. His goal is simply to give the baron immortality in hopes that, like the parable of Gyges, ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
Installment Soul Payments
A person's soul is a big, powerful, important thing that grows as they do. It cannot be sold when you're twenty, because you only have twenty years of it to sell. Of course, ...
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Why would the devil give someone immortality in exchange for them maintaining a diary?
The devil uses the content of the diary for corrupting other men and gain new souls.
Sure, the devil can corrupt men on its own, but having a diary written by some human can be more effective at ...
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